Readers Feedback - Christina Grant

 

 I was delighted to receive notification from one of our readers who had benefitted from Charles’ research, and with her permission I reproduce it here so you can see what a good job Charles does when he delves into the archives. Lesley

 Dear Lesley

I really enjoy reading the Bay magazine, and have always admired the quality and standards of the writing and illustrations. 

I was, therefore, thrilled to be one of the lucky winners in the recent competition in the family history section.

It was such a lovely surprise and I was genuinely pleased with the results from your resident researcher. I was so pleased in fact, that I asked whether I could have my family ancestry researched further.

I would like to say a massive thank you to Charles Wilson Watkins for the amazing job he did researching my family trees. I cannot express enough how thrilled I was to see my ancestry stretching right back to Tudor times.

He blew away several family myths too!

I had always been led to believe, as was my father, that he had been named after his uncle that had been killed whilst serving in WW1. I really wanted to find out where this great uncle of mine had died and been buried. Alas, there wasn’t an uncle with that name, or, that had died in that period of time! 

This was only one of several inaccuracies handed down by word of mouth within the family.

There was no gentry, or infamous people and no royalty. Just a very ordinary family.

One of the loveliest parts was seeing the tree of my great grandmother who I had been led to believe had come from the Orkneys. This was found to be true and, as I had a very dim recollection of seeing her whilst I was a child, it brought her back to my memory.

 I cannot praise or thank Charles enough.

 Sincerely,

Christina Grant 

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